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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-16849
2012-10-24 23:33:03
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Name : man-db
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 2.6.0.2
Release : 9.fc17
URL :
http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/
Summary : Tools for searching and reading man pages
Description :
The man-db package includes five tools for browsing man-pages:
man, whatis, apropos, manpath and lexgrog. man preformats and displays
manual pages. whatis searches the manual page names. apropos searches the
manual page names and descriptions. manpath determines search path
for manual pages. lexgrog directly reads header information in
manual pages.
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Update Information:
This update fixes SIGABRT crash in mandb program.
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Oct 24 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.0.2-9
- resolves: #855632
fixed SIGABRT crash
* Tue Jul 31 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.0.2-8
- resolves: #841431
ignore cached man pages if they don't exist anymore
* Thu Jul 12 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.0.2-7
- resolves: #657409
fixed warning when invoking col by the mandb program in cron
- resolves: #824825
apropos returns correct exit code for invalid man page
- resolves: #829553
clear the old man cache on install or update
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #855632 - [abrt] man-db-2.6.0.2-8.fc17: check_for_stray: Process
/usr/bin/mandb was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855632
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update man-db' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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